Friday, February 25, 2011
Hitting the Wall
It was a rainy day and Trinity and I watched 180 Degrees South. A really good documentary that just brought home how stuck I've been feeling the last week.
Here's how it goes - Life is going along and I get an idea. It's a good idea and it excites me.
Life gets really good.
Having such a good life gives me more ideas, excites and inspires me, and I start doing more stuff.
But maybe I don't have enough room in my life for more good stuff, just enough room for a little good stuff and the rest of the room is for the kind of draggy everyday stuff I was trying to escape in the first place.
But I'm really inspired now and I just want to do this great stuff I've started - in this case, the surfing and the book featuring other moms doing sports. But there's still all the old stuff to do: breakfast, lunch, dinner, dishes, laundry, potty training, homeschooling, trips to the park, and the stuff I really hate - trying to get my kids to do things they don't want to do.
So here's the $64,000 question: how to do the stuff that excites and energizes me while still having all that stuff taken care of, but not having to do it myself?
THIS IS THE QUESTION! Isn't it?
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I know you don't want or need advice, but, have your read the Bhagavad Gita lately?
ReplyDeleteI loved 180 Degrees South. The question is: does the life of a surf bum supported by millionaire entrepreneurs in his fantasy save the world adventure really offer a sane model to us mere householders? Imagine how I felt about it, here, 5-10 hours from surf that is at best marginal, while swallowed up in living.
The skill I feel like I always need is patience and detachment.
I have not read the bhagavad ghita lately. Perhaps I should.
ReplyDeleteAs for 180 degrees south providing a "sane" model - uhm...
Let's just say everytime I watch or read ANYTHING like that, I have only one word in response "children." No matter how great such experiences are, they're nearly impossible while raising children.
Hence this blog as a response to Elizabeth Gilbert's lovely but unlikely to be repeated "Eat Pray Love." After all, if freedom and enlightenment were only available through traveling to Indonesia, or Patagonia, ALONE AS A CHILDLESS PERSON, that would mean enlightenment was impossible for a vast majority of humans. And I just can't get with that!